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9/30/2013 9:24AM

Ready for a Washington Shutdown? Buckle Up.

Is there any way out of this mess? A government shutdown looks likely after a weekend of hardening positions and lack of negotiations. No matter how this ends, rolling fiscal crises will mark the rest of the year and hamper other legislation. Jerry Seib joins News Hub. (Photo: Getty)

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... the the ... the session ... House position which is ... based at the same one that said this the last time this corner rejected again ... and were to face the prospect of government shutting down ... come midnight Monday night Tuesday morning ... the president so one saying I will shut down government ... if you'll give me everything I won on Obamacare ... that to me is the president ... being intransigent and being unwell and a copper my ... we're less than twenty four hours in the end of the fiscal year and there is no deal to fund the government insight ... good morning welcome the New Saab ... on Michael Casey ... the funny to present a bomb is health care overhaul becoming the mother of all sticking points ... Congress is two warring tribes has so far failed to reach a ... compromise ... with a competing budget bills ... was a government shutdown inevitable ... Washington bureau chief Jerry Sithe joins us with the latest ... good morning Jerry ... good morning ... to this is the look of a game of chicken Jerry is anyone able to pull him aside and avoid a collision before the midnight deadline ... well there's a very simple answer that that is avoided is the House Republicans bling and then my you know I think that what's going happen today at the beginning the day is pretty predictable Housel convene the day ... it will reject what the house to send on this Tuesday the Senate will convene at midday or reject both the House and over which is a bill funding the government ... for the next three months ... aam but of stripping out all of money for ... Obamacare for the next year one year delay in Obamacare that's not to pass the Senate ... clean CR in Washington jargon which is to build the fund the government for the next few months will go back to the house ... and then off to the side of the house will they ... accept that ... or will they rejected in in which case the government has spent the night is a very simple equation right now ... I think there's a reason we and to what might happen tonight ... is the House Speaker John Binner might pull out of this drawer ... a bill to fund the government for short amount on a week to week something like that to avoid a shutdown get the house to pass that ... some Democrats are probably vote for that would be hard for this to say no ... in in this drama just continues for a while that's a least one plausible outcome that doesn't solve the problem ... to prevent a shutdown ... that we were talking off their abilities that you did get some sleep last Robertson says this to me that there really isn't ... all of this it was a lot of news coming out of the night is if there really isn't ... that publicly at least a scrambling to reach a deal will what we read from that ... well that makes this different from the last couple of crises and there's a certain Groundhog day element to this crisis you know we've gone through twenty eleven through twenty twelve ... things get pushed to the brink of this question with the government can find itself is a question of when the debt ceiling will be racing that's looming out there just ahead as well ... but that difference was that in those last two cycles ... there was a lot of of backroom talks serious backroom negotiating going on between the White House he wanted no war between the Senate and House ... this time there's not a mean that was nothing to do yesterday in the sense that nobody was ... talking nobody was doing anything there was no negotiating going on so ... I'm that the Lions are pretty clearly drawn here and has said that the question at this point is simply what the Republicans back down there's nothing else to negotiate a or sumthing of being negotiated runaway describing forces if ... you speak to buy and the ball really is in his court ... this quickly don't laugh if you will ... out what to be him going one way or the other on this ... well I did there is that I wrote back in its entire speaker ship has been for the last three years the time of that ... aam on the one hand if he doesn't convince people in his caucus to let him put forward something that funds the government was out of ObamaCare provision on it ... of the government shuts down Republicans kind of know ... that they're going to be plain for that more the Democrats are he can be a serious political problem the other hand ... if the forces something like that on the floor is conservatives riff only has to pass something to fund the government ... with Democratic votes more than Republican votes ... on his leadership within his own Republican packages can be seriously eroded so ... how does he strike a balance between those two that's the story of the day-to-day absolutely Jerry thank you for your time we will stay tuned ...